A short Powerpoint Presentation about the common terms used on the Internet

1. Common Online Terminologies
Leonard Ellis D. Penoliar
Bachelor of Secondary Education
University of Santo Tomas

2. Email
• Also known as “Electronic
Mail”
• A system for sending and
receiving messages
electronically over a computer
network, as between personal
computers.
Most Used Email
Domains:

3. Online Chat
• Kind of Communication over the
Internet that offers a real time
transmission of messages from
senders to receivers.
• Once a chat has been
initiated, either user
can enter text by
• Famous
typing on the
Chat Sites:
keyboard and the
entered text will
appear on the other
user's monitor.

4. Podcast
• A digital medium consisting of an
episodic series of audio, video, PDF,
or ePub files subscribed to and
downloaded through web
syndication or streamed online to a
computer or mobile device.
Popular Podcasts:

5. Blog
• Short for “Web Log”
• A Web page that serves as
a publicly accessible
personal journal for an
individual.
Popular Blog
sites:

6. Streaming
• Data streaming,
commonly seen in the
forms of audio and video
streaming, is when a
multimedia file can be
played back without
being completely
downloaded first.
Most files, like
shareware and
software
updates that you
download off
the Internet, are
not streaming
data.

7. Social Bookmarking
• A method of saving web pages in a single location which
can be used for future reading.

8. URL
• Also known as “Uniform Resource
Locator”
• The global address of documents
and other resources on the World
Wide Web.

9. WIKI
• A web application which allows people to add, modify, or
delete content in collaboration with others.
• An Encyclopedia type of Reference.

10. VolP
• Short for Voice over Internet Protocol, a category of
hardware and software that enables people to use the
Internet as the transmission medium for telephone calls by
sending voice data in packets using IP rather than by
traditional circuit transmissions of the PSTN.

11. WWW
• Connection of Internet resources such
as FTP, telenet, and Usenet.

12. HTML
• Short for “Hypertext Markup
Language”.
• HTML defines the structure
and layout of a Web document
by using variety of tags and
attributes.

13. Social Networking
• Social networking websites allow users to be part
of a virtual community. The two most popular
sites are currently Facebook and Twitter. These
websites provide users with simple tools to create
a custom profile with text and pictures. A typical
profile includes basic information about the user,
at least one photo, and possibly a blog or other
comments published by the user. Advanced
profiles may include videos, photo albums, online
applications (in Facebook), or custom layouts (in
Twitter). After creating a profile, users can add or
follow friends, send messages to other users, and
leave comments directly on friends' profiles.
These features provide the building blocks for
creating online communities.